SOLUTION: A farmer hopes to yield 600 kg of corn after one harvest from a small plot of land. He knows that every square meter of land can yield 2 kg of harvested corn. Is the farmer's 6

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Question 1062973: A farmer hopes to yield 600 kg of corn after one harvest from a small plot of land. He knows that every square meter of land can yield 2 kg of harvested corn.
Is the farmer's 6 m by 18 m plot of land large enough to produce the 600 kg of corn he desires?
____A_____, the area needed to yield 600 kg of corn is ____B_____ square meters, and the plot of land is ____C_____ square meters.
Select three answers
A: No
C: 300
B: 300
B: 600
C: 288
C: 600
B: 288
A: Yes

Answer by Boreal(15235)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
His farm is 108 m^2.
To get 600 kg of corn, A=NO, the area needed to yield 600 kg of corn is 300 sq meters, and the plot of land is 108 m^2, which doesn't fit with any choices. If it were 18 m by 16 m then the choice 288 would be correct.

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